Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, says ongoing construction work on the Lagos-Ibadan rail project has been put on hold due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
During a live television programme on African Independent Television monitored in Abuja, the minister said the employees of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, the contractor handling the project, were still in China on the orders of their government .
He said, “If not for coronavirus we would have finished the Lagos-Ibadan rail, although the project is nearly completed. The CCECC workers are still in China.”
You would recall that the Federal Government had announced on several occasions that the rail project would be officially opened for commercial activities in April.
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